Orlando had the 16th-highest increase in poor population in the nation in 2011, according to a new book released by the Brookings Institution.

Orlando’s poor population more than doubled between 2000 and 2011 — from 143,447 to 290,783, according to Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, authored by Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube of the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

With a poverty rate of 15.4 percent in 2011, Orlando also had the 16th-highest poverty rate of the top 100 metropolitan areas of the country.

Orlando ranked 28th in the nation for its shift in the number of poor people living in suburban areas with a 9.1 point increase in the 2011 suburban share of the poor population in the metro area.

While there was a shift in the share of suburban Orlando residents living in poverty, the poverty rate of Orlando residents living in the city was 20.8 percent, compared to 15.4 percent in the suburban area.

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